Animals

If your dog does this at daycare, it could be a red flag, expert warns

Scientists recorded more than 50 days of deep-ocean footage before a goblin shark appeared for just over 20 seconds near the Tonga Trench, one of the first two confirmed sightings of this 125-million-year lineage alive in its natural habitat

Salmon returning to the stream where they hatched are not following a map anyone drew for them: they are reading the chemical signature of their birth water on the final stretch, a scent memory formed before they ever reached the ocean

A queen honeybee can live for several years, while worker bees may live for only six weeks in summer — and biologists still cannot fully explain the difference, because queens and workers share the same basic genome and are separated mainly by what they were fed as larvae

How to keep your dog cool and comfortable this summer

‘Franken-trout’ infesting Scottish lochs

In 1960, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent a 26-year-old English secretary named Jane Goodall — who had no university degree and no scientific training — to a stretch of forest called Gombe to study wild chimpanzees. Within months she had observed a chimpanzee stripping leaves off a stalk to fish termites from a mound, overturning the long-held belief that only humans made and used tools

Prairie dogs don’t just warn their colony that a predator is near. Their alarm calls seem to encode what kind of animal is coming, and in some experiments its colour, size, and how fast it moves — all from a rodent’s squeak

Heroic dog jumps into action to protect little boy from a charging black bear

Roaring Royalty: Fascinating Secrets Behind The Real Life Of Lions In The Wild

Elephants communicate through vibrations in the ground at frequencies below human hearing, and researchers have shown other elephants can not only feel these signals through their feet but tell a familiar caller from a stranger

Indonesia Discovers 18 Rare Coelacanths in Major Conservation Breakthrough

Tsunami, the rescue dog, wins hearts for saving 13 lives from rubble after Venezuela earthquakes

Birds are not descended from dinosaurs — they are dinosaurs, a living branch of the theropod family that survived the asteroid and now fills the world with more than 10,000 species

These two orphaned mountain lion cubs have a new home at Zoo New York

Tips for safely enjoying the beach with your dog

Vets explain what dogs' crate escapes are really trying to tell you

Viral Video of the Day for July 11, 2026: Woman shows off her "unbothered" Craigslist cat and viewers can't get enough!

Moment a dog realizes he's been left behind captured in heartbreaking security footage

Neil the seal returns to sea, leaving trail of destruction